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Siquijor
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of the province of Negros Oriental, Philippine Islands, on a small island of the same name about 14 m.
S.E of Dumaguete, the capital of the province. Pop. (1903) after the annexation of San Juan, 19,416. There are sixty-four barrios or villages in the town, but only one of these had in 1903 more than loon inhabitants. The language is Bohol-Visayan. The principal industry is the raising of coco-nuts and preparing them for market. Other industries are the cultivation of tobacco, rice, Indian corn and hemp, and the manufacture of sinamay, a coarse hemp cloth. The island is of coral formation; its highest point is about 1700 ft.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Siquijor'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/siquijor.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Siquijor'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/siquijor.html. 1910.